Lamentations 5:4
Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
In Context
3Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
5Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send out against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of every thing; and they will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until they have destroyed thee.
Isaiah 3:1For, behold, the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, doth remove from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, every stay of bread, and every stay of water.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →